5.0584 Qs: Palimpsests; African Etexts; DOS; Lisp. (4/89)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 13 Jan 1992 22:31:15 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0584. Monday, 13 Jan 1992.

(1) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1992 03:33:59 +0100 (13 lines)
From: Stig Johansson <Stig.Johansson@use.uio.no>
Subject: Reading palimpsests

(2) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 11:13:33 GMT (43 lines)
From: P.R.Williams@vme.glasgow.ac.uk
Subject: Afro-American Nationalism: texts

(3) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 92 11:40 MST (23 lines)
From: SBeeler@UNCAMULT.BITNET
Subject: Icon

(4) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 92 19:48:57 EST (10 lines)
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: public domain Lisp

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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1992 03:33:59 +0100
From: Stig Johansson <Stig.Johansson@use.uio.no>
Subject: Reading palimpsests

A colleague of mine read an article in Time (September 9, 1991) called
"The Palimpsest Man". It is about the use of computer techniques to read
Gothic manuscripts, as developed by James Marchand, Center for Advanced
Studies, Champaign, University of Illinois. A search in databases failed
to reveal further references on this topic (though my colleague found
references to other publications by James Marchand). Can humanists help?

Stig Johansson,
University of Oslo
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 11:13:33 GMT
From: P.R.Williams@vme.glasgow.ac.uk
Subject: Afro-American Nationalism: texts

Subject: Afro-American Nationalism
From: P.R.Williams@UK.AC.GLASGOW.VME
Date: 7 Jan 92 11:09:27
To: amerstdy@earn.miamiu
Msg ID: < 7 Jan 92 11:09:27 GMT A10753@UK.AC.GLA.VME>


Subject: Afro-American Nationalism
From: P.R.Williams@UK.AC.GLASGOW.VME
Date: 7 Jan 92 11:06:25
To: afam-l@earn.umcvmb
Msg ID: < 7 Jan 92 11:06:25 GMT A10746@UK.AC.GLA.VME>

To anyone out there who can help me,

I'm looking to do a little piece of research into afro-american nationalism
between 1900 and 1930, and am attempting to find etexts (that is electronic
texts that are machine readable) of any of the major leaders in this period
If this is not possible could any supply me with possible sources of primary
source material for this period, for example speeches, essays etc.

My research is an attempt to analyse such materials using textual analysis
programs like Wordcruncher, OCP, TACT.

Any help in finding texts, whether computerised, or bound, would be most
gratefully recieved.

Thanks for any help you are able to offer,

Paul R. Williams,
Postgraduate,
c/o Denis Brogan Centre,
Department of Modern History,
University of Glasgow,
2, University Gardens,
Glasgow,
Scotland.
G12 8QQ

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 92 11:40 MST
From: SBeeler@UNCAMULT.BITNET
Subject: Icon

January 8, 1992

I would like to thank all who responded both privately and on the
HUMANIST to my request for information about Icon. I have used Internet
to obtain a copy of the interpreter and will be experimenting with the
language as time allows.
I was interested to note that a request for information on Icon
prompted a critique of the MS-DOS operating system. I have always
considered an OS to be like a human language in that one uses what most
people understand. When in Germany I speak German, in North America
English. I have been asked to collaborate on a project in the
MS-Windows environment so I have begun to work with Windows. I do not
like it very much so far as it eats up disk and memory resources, but it
is a requirement of the project. In the best of all possible worlds I
would be able to work with the OS of my choice and hand the results over
for conversion; however things never seem to work out that way.

Stan Beeler Dept. of English University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N
1N4 acs.ucalgary.ca
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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 92 19:48:57 EST
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: public domain Lisp

The recent discussion on ICON prompted me to ask whether there is a public
domain version of Common Lisp for the Macintosh. Please note: this query in no
way implies that I am interested in discussing the relative merits of Lisp
with respect to other programming languages. Please post all responses to
Humanist, not to me. I will ignore all personal messages sent to me in this
matter.